Nuremberg: openSUSE Server Down over Weekend

A planned maintenance for the transformers for the openSUSE servers at the Nuremberg office will bring down the critical services for a few days over the 9/11 weekend.

Bringing an openSUSE system to its newest KDE or GNOME version should take place as soon as possible, because the project servers will be taken out of service from Friday 13:00 UTC until Monday 07:00 UTC over the September 11 weekend. Reason for it is transformer maintenance for the Maxtorhof office in Nuremberg, Germany, as the openSUSE announcement reports. The project will be updating and fixing some hosts and services before the downtime.

The hosts affected by the power outage are:

download.opensuse.org

software.opensuse.org

static.opensuse.org (CSS)

build.opensuse.org (aka buildservice)

features.opensuse.org

hermes.opensuse.org

lists.opensuse.org (means all Mailinglists)

conference.opensuse.org

shop.opensuse.org

i18n.opensuse.org

apparmor.opensuse.org

crashdb.opensuse.org

api.opensuse.org

users.opensuse.org

community.opensuse.org

board.opensuse.org

svn.opensuse.org

git.opensuse.org

On Thursday, the openSUSE build service will ensure that all mirror servers are brought to a consistent, up-to-date state for the weekend. Not affected by the downtime are the [language].opensuse.org wikis, forums.opensuse.org and bugzilla.novell.com.

On the outskirts of the OpenSUSE Conference, core developers revealed details on the new openSUSE version 11.2. Although it will have Kernel 2.6.31, browser users will have to wait a bit longer for YaST.